Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most doctors scoff when patients turn to quacks or unorthodox practitioners. Instead of scoffing, Dr. Beatrix Cobb, research psychologist at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, determined to find out why patients do it. The people she questioned, reports Dr. Cobb in the current Psychiatric Bulletin, divided roughly into four groups...
...Force officers were gathered to thrash out plans for next year's R.O.T.C. program, and sooner or later most of the groups came to a strange new subject: the ideas and methods of a man named Alex F. Osborn. By profession, Osborn is neither an airman, educator, nor psychologist. Nevertheless, he seems destined to have a hand in the training of the nation's air reserve. For the past two years he has been waging a one-man crusade to get U.S. education to teach creative imagination. Last week-with the blessings of the Air University in Montgomery...
Asked what he would do if his wife told him to stop flying, one ace promptly replied: "I would tell her to go to hell." Dedicated as they are the aces are solid family men, many have large families, spend their leisure time playing golf and fishing. Psychologist Torrance sums up: "I have nothing but great admiration for them . . . The jet ace is a man who goes out into life and meets it head...
Last week, after a six-month study of 31 jet aces and 62 of their less successful contemporaries, the Air Force's Psychologist E. Paul Torrance shed some light on the top MIG killers. The jet ace's outstanding characteristics: aggressiveness, self-confidence, an almost fanatic devotion to flying. The typical ace was born into a large family, had to cooperate and vie for parental attention with his brothers & sisters, was seldom coddled. As a youngster he played hookey from school or drove cars just to see if it could be done, strove to win at such rough...
...University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research includes not only human relations but a related field called "group dynamics"-a term first used by the late Psychologist Kurt Lewin, who believed that there are certain "structural properties of groups" that can be "analyzed objectively and measured accurately." Instead of merely observing existing conditions, the group-dynamics enthusiasts go in for controlled experiments, have spent more than a year, for instance, trying to determine what makes some children leaders in a group while others choose to follow. Meanwhile, the surveyors have made studies of various industries...